Bad, as a prognosis, 4 letters
Like a feared reaper, 4 letters
Like film-noir plots, 4 letters
Like reality, at times, 4 letters
Not at all cheerful, 4 letters
Not too rosy, as an outlook, 4 letters
Anguished expression, 7 letters
Contemptuous countenance, 7 letters
Pal of Ronald McDonald, 7 letters
Possible reaction to bad news, 7 letters
Purple McDonaldland denizen, 7 letters
Sharp facial contortion, 7 letters
A contorted facial expression, 7 letters
Put on an unhappy face, 8 letters
Moment after a bad pun?, 13 letters
Monaco's royal family, 8 letters
Monaco's royal house, 8 letters
Prince Rainier's family name, 8 letters
Prince Rainier's house, 8 letters
Behind-the-toilet buildup, 5 letters
Cleaning lady's target, 5 letters
Dizzee Rascal's genre, 5 letters
Gross accumulation?, 5 letters
Item to be washed out., 5 letters
Old machinery coating, 5 letters
Sandblaster's target, 5 letters
Tough laundry problem, 5 letters
The state of being covered with unclean things, 5 letters
Memoirs of a sadistic cleaning lady?, 18 letters
Covered with dirt and soil, 6 letters
Judge's advice about cleaning up?, 14 letters
Concern of Mr. Clean?, 15 letters
Ring around the collar?, 13 letters
Go Tell It on the Mountain family name, 6 letters
Summer of '42 star Gary, 6 letters
Actress Tammy who won a Tony for playing Molly Brown, 6 letters
Author of The Horse You Came In On, 6 letters
Britten's Peter ___, 6 letters
Martha of mysteries, 6 letters
Tammy who won a Tony as The Unsinkable Molly Brown, 6 letters
Tony winner as Molly Brown, 6 letters
Group of house-cleaners?, 14 letters
Covered with more soot, 7 letters
Dingier and grubbier, 7 letters
Less presentable, perhaps, 7 letters
More in need of a bath, 7 letters
In a forbidding way, 6 letters
Andersen contemporary, 5 letters
Big name in fairy tales, 5 letters
Big name in folklore, 5 letters
Brother with a fairy tale, 5 letters
Brothers ___ (German brothers Jakob and Wilhelm who collected fairy tales), 5 letters
Brothers' name in children's literature, 5 letters
Fairy-tale writers' surname, 5 letters
Fairy-tale writing brother, 5 letters
Fairy-tale-writing brothers' surname, 5 letters
Family name of folklore, 5 letters
Fitting literary surname, 5 letters
German fairy-tale writer, 5 letters
Important name in fairy tales, 5 letters
Listened to ghastly old tale-teller (5), 5 letters
Mother Goose's dog, in the comics, 5 letters
Name in fairy tales, 5 letters
Noted name in tale-spinning, 5 letters
One of a pair of fairy tale brothers, 5 letters
Surname for Jakob and Wilhelm, 5 letters
The Brothers ___: fairy tale tellers, 5 letters
The younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859), 5 letters
The older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories, 5 letters
Also author of Grimm's Law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863), 5 letters
Made of sterner stuff, 7 letters
What horror writers use?, 14 letters
What some fairy tales employ?, 14 letters
Bedtime stories (and this puzzle's theme), 15 letters
Fantasy's antithesis?, 12 letters
Fairy tale farmer?, 11 letters
Brothers famous for folk tales, 6 letters
Antonius Block's chess opponent in Bergman's The Seventh Seal, 10 letters
Bony scythe-carrier, 10 letters
Cleese role in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, 10 letters
Figure carrying a scythe, 10 letters
Haunted house figure, 10 letters
He's always around for the last harvest, 10 letters
Scythe-bearing visitor, 10 letters
The Little Mermaid fellow, 7 letters
Borough near the Humber, 7 letters
Anagram of Television program showing Wagner?, 17 letters
___ faces were never seen... (Sting lyric from We Work the Black Seam), 5 letters
Covered with soot, e.g., 5 letters
In need of deep cleaning, 5 letters
Like coal miners' clothes, 5 letters
Needing a scrubbing, 5 letters
Poorly maintained farm equipment?, 11 letters
The state of being grimy, 9 letters
The quality of being ghastly, 8 letters
Something hard to endure, 8 letters
A manual of black magic (for invoking spirits and demons), 8 letters